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Definition 2025
vétiller
vétiller
French
Verb
vétiller
- (intransitive, archaic) to trifle (deal with unimportant things)
Conjugation
  Conjugation of vétiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | vétiller | avoir vétillé | |||||
| gerund | en vétillant | en ayant vétillé | |||||
| present participle | vétillant /ve.ti.jɑ̃/ | ||||||
| past participle | vétillé /ve.ti.je/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses | present | vétille /ve.tij/ | vétilles /ve.tij/ | vétille /ve.tij/ | vétillons /ve.ti.jɔ̃/ | vétillez /ve.ti.je/ | vétillent /ve.tij/ | 
| imperfect | vétillais /ve.ti.jɛ/ | vétillais /ve.ti.jɛ/ | vétillait /ve.ti.jɛ/ | vétillions /ve.tij.jɔ̃/ | vétilliez /ve.tij.je/ | vétillaient /ve.ti.jɛ/ | |
| past historic1 | vétillai /ve.ti.je/ | vétillas /ve.ti.ja/ | vétilla /ve.ti.ja/ | vétillâmes /ve.ti.jam/ | vétillâtes /ve.ti.jat/ | vétillèrent /ve.ti.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | vétillerai /ve.tij.ʁe/ | vétilleras /ve.tij.ʁa/ | vétillera /ve.tij.ʁa/ | vétillerons /ve.tij.ʁɔ̃/ | vétillerez /ve.tij.ʁe/ | vétilleront /ve.tij.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | vétillerais /ve.tij.ʁɛ/ | vétillerais /ve.tij.ʁɛ/ | vétillerait /ve.tij.ʁɛ/ | vétillerions /ve.ti.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ | vétilleriez /ve.ti.jə.ʁje/ | vétilleraient /ve.tij.ʁɛ/ | |
| compound tenses | present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses | present | vétille /ve.tij/ | vétilles /ve.tij/ | vétille /ve.tij/ | vétillions /ve.tij.jɔ̃/ | vétilliez /ve.tij.je/ | vétillent /ve.tij/ | 
| imperfect1 | vétillasse /ve.ti.jas/ | vétillasses /ve.ti.jas/ | vétillât /ve.ti.ja/ | vétillassions /ve.ti.ja.sjɔ̃/ | vétillassiez /ve.ti.ja.sje/ | vétillassent /ve.ti.jas/ | |
| compound tenses | past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | vétille /ve.tij/ | — | vétillons /ve.ti.jɔ̃/ | vétillez /ve.ti.je/ | — | ||
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